Each year on 21 September the World Council of Churches calls on churches to observe the UN International Day of Prayer for Peace. It is also the UN–sponsored International Day…
A report just released by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has highlighted the close link between poverty and those who voted for Brexit in the EU referendum.
Yorkshire Friends Holiday School (YFHS) took place at Bootham School, York, from 21-28 August.
The historic six-acre estate and property at Old Jordans in Buckinghamshire is on sale for £15 million.
Volunteers at the Quaker Tapestry Museum have chosen tapestry panels for the museum’s 2017 calendar and offered personal responses to their favourite ones.
Three-quarters of the students at Belize Friends School are absent from class due to the damage Hurricane Earl caused to their homes last month.
Paul Rogers, the global security consultant and professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from Leeds Beckett…
The Quaker Life Network has launched a Quaker Meeting Librarians Cluster. The initiative aims to enable Friends who run their Meeting libraries to do so with confidence.
Bill McKibben, a founder of the campaigning organisation 350.org, spoke about his work on fossil fuel divestment and the fight for climate justice at Friends House in London on 28…
Presentations were given at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham on Saturday 20 August by the four 2016 Eva Koch scholars.
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